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How to install Java SE Update 5 on Ubuntu 7.10

[WARNING: These instructions are right for the installation of the self-extracting binary file on the Linux x64 Platform]

1. Download the self-extracting binary file of Java SE Update 5 from the Sun web site. The file is jdk-6u5-linux-x64.bin.

2. Make sure that execute permissions are set on the self-extracting binary: run the command

chmod +x jdk-6u5-linux-x64.bin

3. Change directory to the location where you would like the files to be installed.

4. Run the self-extracting binary, executing it prepended by the path to it. If the file is in the current directory, prepend it with “./” (necessary if “.” is not in the PATH environment variable):

./jdk-6u5-linux-x64.bin

The binary code license is displayed, and you are prompted to agree to its terms.
The JDK files are installed in a directory called jdk1.6.0_05.

5. You have to check which is the number of your other Java alternatives on your Ubuntu installation to choose the number for the new Java Update 5 installation alternative. You can do this by typing

sudo update-alternatives --config java

without making any choice.

6. If your Java alternatives are, for example, from number 0 to number 3, then for your new Java Update 5 installation alternative you can choose 4 and add the alternative with this command (please, note the number 4 at the end of the command):

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /yourJavaInstallationPath/jdk1.6.0_05/bin/java 4

7. Now you can choose the Update 5 as your Java alternative typing

sudo update-alternatives --config java

and choosing 4.

8. You can check that all goes right typing

java -version

NetBeans Discussion List in Italian – Lista di discussione in italiano su NetBeans

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NetBeans has created a discussion list for Italian-speaking users. Members can discuss NetBeans related issues, offer each other advice and more.
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NetBeans ha creato una lista di discussione per tutti gli utilizzatori di NetBeans che vogliano discutere in italiano su uso, comunità, sviluppo attorno a questo IDE.
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My Flickr account

Voilà my Flickr account, where I put my first set of photos taken last week in Antwerp at the JavaPolis 07 conference! Enjoy!

These days at JavaPolis 07

These days I’m in Antwerpen in Belgium (“Anversa”, for the Italian people ) at the JavaPolis conference, the great european conference about Java, my development language. I’m here with my dear friend and colleague Antonio, and yesterday we had the pleasure to be at the dinner organized by the BeJUG, the Belgian Java User Group, where we met a lot of international JUG members and JUG leaders, but, first of all, we had the possibility to meet James Gosling, the Father of Java!!!
So, now I can post this photo!
The computer science world and, in particular, the Java world and all the conferences like JavaPolis, are so friendly realities that it’s so easy to know people from different countries in the world, and to meet your idols and also drink a beer with them!!

E’ uscito il libro “Java Micro Edition”, di Stefano Sanna

E’ con grandissimo piacere che annuncio l’uscita oggi del libro Java Micro Edition di Stefano Sanna, edito da Hoepli.
La notizia mi fa un enorme piacere per diversi motivi: si tratta di un grande risultato e traguardo di una persona umile, seria, molto capace, professionalmente di altissimo livello, nonché, cosa molto rara, di una persona capace di trasferire agli altri le proprie conoscenze. Questo libro è la prova di tutto questo.
Perciò, a chi è appassionato di Java Micro Edition e dispositivi mobili, chi sviluppa su questa piattaforma e se ne occupa per lavoro, consiglio sicuramente l’acquisto. Si tratta di un libro scritto da chi conosce davvero a fondo la materia.

Grande Stefano, grande Gerda !!

il Blog di Stefano Sanna: www.gerdavax.it
Per acquistare il libro: http://www.hoepli.it/editore/hoeplinformatica.asp

NetBeans Day a Cagliari

Il NetBeans World Tour fa tappa a Cagliari per una giornata teorico-pratica interamente dedicata al famoso IDE Java. Speaker d’eccezione saranno Roman Strobl e Sang Shin, di SUN Microsystems, insieme a Fabrizio Giudici del NetBeans Dream Team.
L’evento si terrà Sabato, 29 Settembre 2007, presso la sede della IERFOP.
Maggiori informazioni e registrazione le trovate sul sito del JUG Sardegna.